A very occasional blog about maths things which interest me.
Sunday, 20 May 2018
Mathematical discoveries
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I was lucky enough to attend a meeting organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics on "The History of Cryptography...
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Sunday, 28 January 2018
London buses, and the use of the mean as an estimate
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A couple of weeks ago, I got onto my morning bus, climbed the stairs, holding on as the bus lurched forward, and sat down, to hear for the f...
Sunday, 19 November 2017
MathsJam
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Here is my overdue post on last weekend's MathsJam gathering. MathsJam is always a wonderfully exciting and enjoyable weekend, and this...
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Looking forward to MathsJam
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With only three days to go till the MathsJam Gathering - the best weekend of the year, I've been thinking of some of my favourite Maths...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Black Mathematician Month
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One of the best things to have happened for mathematics in the UK recently is the arrival of Chalkdust magazine - an exciting, witty magazi...
Saturday, 14 October 2017
Monty Hall
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Two weeks ago, on Saturday 30 September, two big names in mathematics died. Vladimir Voevodsky, who was only 51, made huge contributions to...
Saturday, 23 September 2017
How I won a jar of sweets
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I was the proud winner of the Greenwich University MathSoc "guess how many sweets in the jar" competition at the Welcome Fair thi...
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